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Ford and In-car Cloud Computing

Saturday, May 29th, 2010

While most American car makers have struggled in the bearish economy, including Toyota, Ford has made a remarkable turnaround, and in April announced strong quarterly profits. According to MarketWatch, Ford swung to a profit of $2.1 billion, or 50 cents a share, from a loss of $1.4 billion, or 60 cents a share, in the [...]

Here Come the Tablet PCs

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

The PC tablet wars were officially kicked off April 3rd with Apple’s US launch of the iPad. (The international launch has been delayed and is now scheduled for sometime in May.) To great fanfare, Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple. The technology media gushed over the fact the iPad launched with a surprising number of [...]

The Great Train Race

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

I have always loved trains – they have always occupied a sweet spot in travel for me between the intimate contact with the land that car travel offers and the fast, but depersonalized and remote sense you get from air travel. I had resigned myself to the fact that passenger trains might one day disappear [...]

Veronica Khosa – Bringing Compassion and New Thinking to the Battle Against AIDS in South Africa

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

In the face of what is one of the modern world’s most devastating epidemics, Veronica Khosa is championing compassion. Much has already been written regarding the rising toll that HIV/AIDS-related illnesses and deaths have had on the African continent, but little of the social entrepreneurs who are facing the daily challenges head on. Khosa, a [...]

Global Solar – Entrepreneurs Take the Lead on Low Cost Alternative Energy

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

All too often, when it comes to discussing clean, renewable methods for sating our global energy hunger, solar energy is omitted from the conversation. A shame when one considers that solar power may be our most abundant source of potential energy, and one that lies mostly untapped despite years of advancements in the necessary technology. [...]

The World Cafe – Principles for Purposeful Conversations

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

As much as technology has improved our ability to communicate with like-minded individuals around the world, there are still some difficulties that can only be solved by person-to-person discussion. The World Café is a new approach to harnessing the power of a group to take aim at the myriad of concerns that exist in any [...]

Plug-in Hybrids Go for a Spin in 2010

Monday, January 18th, 2010

Well, they shouldn’t be faulted for their enthusiasm. 2010 is here – slated to be the Year of the Electric Car – and automakers are still working out the glitches before the long-promised, much-hyped vehicles hit the production lines. To be fair, the year is still young – and with the Nissan Leaf expected to [...]

Tiffin – Meals for Millions in Mumbai

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

It is a low-tech, high-volume service that has Western business management experts flocking to the crowded, dusty streets of Mumbai. Each weekday, the Tiffin delivery network provides hot, home-cooked meals to a growing population of office workers in India’s financial capital. From the city’s outer suburbs to the bustling downtown core, the small, aluminum boxes [...]

Rockefeller Foundation – Creating the Mold for Big Philanthropy

Friday, December 11th, 2009

‘Gain all you can, save all you can, and give all you can.’ – John Wesley It is a fitting maxim for America’s first billionaire and the founder of one of the country’s oldest major philanthropic organizations, the Rockefeller Foundation. Industrialist, robber baron, monopolist or mankind’s greatest benefactor – history has not yet passed its [...]

Searhcing for Wind Power via Land, Sea and Air

Monday, December 7th, 2009

Before oil, gas, coal, hydroelectric and nuclear power – there was wind. It advanced the spread of civilization – by powering the sailing vessels of the earliest explorers and once settled, enabling them to efficiently irrigate their fields and mill their harvests. To our ancestors, wind must have appeared to be a coy mistress – [...]